Best Night Sight for Glock

Everyone who wants to customize their handgun knows that sights are one of the few useful things that we actually need. Of course, we do many aesthetic things to our handgun, but sights may actually improve the handgun’s performance. This applies especially to a Glock, but we may easily get away from ourselves when it comes to performance improvements.

The basics on sights

You need to expect some differences when we talk about fixed sights, as well as about night sights. Some medium (typically tritium) is affixed to the rear and forward sight and it glows so that the sights may be seen in low and no light.

On the other hand, if it’s too dark to clearly make out your sight, how do you expect to see what you are planning to shoot? Knowing how the human eye works, we have to mention that our eyes are in amesopic phase, meaning your day vision (cones) is fighting for control with the night vision (rods). This situation is frequent in twilight conditions or when there is intermittent artificial lighting. It’s not dark enough for light, but bright enough to see well without light.

In this kind of situation a night sight helps you in near focus of the target and may bring accuracy within the distance you are able to see.

You should stay away from the HD sights as the front post is bright enough to confuse the eye, getting it into thinking the light is brighter than in reality. This gives a confusion in the transition between the mesopic lighting of the target and the near photopic brightness of the sights.

Why use night sights

When you get a night sight for your Glock, you need to keep your feet on the ground. Night sights don’t improve your shooting skills, nor help you shoot faster or more precisely either. And, real life stress might not even let you see at all- night sights on or not. Why get them then, you say? There are some good reasons and the glowing in the dark part is not quite the most important part, on the contrary.

Creating a contrast between the rear and front sights is the main thing. Night sights come with different color rear/front combinations (which is better than one solid color for both), though they glow more or less at the same brightness. This affects the luminosity contrast and gives you a simple color contrast.

A color contrast between two light sources bright enough to bloom in your vision is less useful and brings damage.

Go for the fiber optic sights as they concentrate existent light without magnifying it. The “glow” of a fiber optic rod even under twilight conditions is not too bright and doesn’t obscure your target either.

Fiber optic sights are not very long lasting and they are quite fragile. But even if the fiber optic rod is broken, the front sight post is still there, and pretty useful. On the plus side, it’s cheap and easy to change a broken fiber optic.

It’s common sense that you don’t need night sights if you have a weapon light or a handheld one.

You do need a fast transition between three focal planes while shooting and you do need the highest contrast between the front and the rear in order to have fast targeting, without blooming your vision. And the night sights are able to help you with this.

Keep in mind though before you go shopping that no night sight is going to make you a better shooter and, just because a gun doesn’t come with night sights, doesn’t mean you can’t customize it to your liking.

The night sights use tritium, the glow-in-the-dark green that needs no batteries in order to illuminate

The BattleHook fits Glock small frames

The night sights are a perfect customization for your defensive shooting option

The blade goes over the back of the slide for a longer sight radius and a larger sight reference, giving you accuracy on shooting

The Battlehook is finished with lon bond PVD coating, which gives durability and toughness to the surface

You may choose from the small frame Glock option or the large frame Glock models

The rear notch comes in two widths: standard and ultra carry

The ultra carry width is great for very fast target acquisition

The Battlehook gives amazing sight radius for more precision when shooting

The front dot tritium increases target acquisition night and day

The rear 10-degree forward hook design helps you for the one-hand slide racking, when in need

The sights come with 40 LPI low glare serrations that increases your visibility and accuracy when on field

The sights are made of long lasting, tough 4140 high tensile steel

The sights have a scratch resistant finish

The Battlehook are made in our USA

As for the parts we didn’t like, we have none to mention. The price is not the lowest out there, so there’s that.

For the passionate, tactical shooters, a good pair of night sights is the Trijicon HD Night Sight Set for Glock Pistols. Giving you fast target acquisition during the day and being bright in the night, the Trijcon HD comes with many pros. Here they are:

The Trijcon HD give high visibility colored front sight post

The glow-in-the-dark photo luminescent paint helps with the visibility

The night sights speed up the target acquisition in transitional light

The angled and serrated surface minimizes glare

The black painted rings maximize focus on front sight

The specifically designed rear notch helps the front sight acquisition

The tritium-filled glass lamp gives high illumination in low or no light setting

These night sights give you full visibility in all shooting conditions, day or night

The night sights glow in the dark

The Truglo are designed especially for a Glock 42, but easily fit a Glock 43

You don’t need batteries for using the night sights

There is fortress finish on the night sights, which gives a constant protective coating

You only need 10 minutes to install the Truglo

The night sights glow amazingly well in the night

You may want to use the Truglo also on dusk conditions

The night sights are well made

There’s great engineering on the night sights

The Truglo night sights are made of long lasting metal

The Truglo night sights combine Tritium and fiber optic technologies

The tritium keeps the brightness level of the sight in low-light or no light conditions

When it comes to the cons, there is only one big fat con to mention: The Truglo fits few Glock models. Designed for the Glock 42, it does fit a Glock 43, but it’s not as versatile as you’d want from your night sights.

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